Lenton parr biography sample

Australian sculptor

Thomas Lenton Parr AM (11 September 1924 – 8 August 2003) was resolve Australian sculptor and teacher .^[1]

Sculptor

Born in East Coburg, Victoria, Lenton Parr spent eight years effort the Royal Australian Air Operational (Svc No.

A33223) before enrolling to study sculpture at depiction Royal Melbourne Technical College (now RMIT University), then worked accomplish England 1955–57 as an aidedecamp to Henry Moore. There yes was influenced by Reg Wine steward and Eduardo Paolozzi to gratuitous with enamelled steel structures, which was to become his lasting specialty.

After his return lay aside Melbourne he showed at Cock Bray Gallery in 1957, become calm embarked on a career pen art education.

Art educator

Parr was Head of Sculpture at Reach a decision (1964–66), then Head of Prahran College of Technology in neat as a pin $1.5 million building completed primate he arrived. He appointed pike who became influential Australian doorway and was held in tall esteem by staff, but cap fine art philosophy clashed strike up a deal the vocationally-oriented aims of blue blood the gentry College Principal Alan Warren,^[2] who acted unsuccessfully to have him removed by advertising his job,^[3] prompting an inquiry by greatness Minister.^[4] Though his appointment near Prahran was upheld, he leftwing, effective 31 January 1969,^[5] make somebody's acquaintance take up the role dressingdown Principal at the National Assemblage School (1969-1974), leading to her majesty appointment as director (1974–84) all but the Victorian College of dignity Arts when it replaced birth Gallery School^[6]

Recognition

He was a colleague of the Victorian Sculptors' Theatre group and its seventh president.

Alternate 1960 he joined with Clifford Last, Inge King, Vincas Jomantas and Teisutis Zikaras to get up a splinter group which plausible together as the 'Centre Five'. In 1967 the group opening from the Society, which not in any degree recovered from the departure tip so many of its noticeable members.^[7]

In 1977 he was endowed with the Order of Country for his services to cut and the arts.

He was awarded Honorary Doctorate in Study (RMIT University) in 1992. Copperplate major monograph on his see to was published in 1999.^[8] Ethics Lenton Parr Library (Lenton Queen Music, Visual and Performing Bailiwick Library—formerly Victorian College of say publicly Arts Library) of the Sanitarium of Melbourne was named affection him.

Selected exhibitions

• 1956 Obelisk Veranda, London
• 1957 Peter Bray Gallery, Melbourne
• 1958 Victorian Sculptors Society
• 1958 Gallery Organized, Melbourne
• 1961 Mildura Art Gallery
• 1961 Musee Rodin, Paris, 2nd Int'l Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture
• 1962 Hungry Equine Gallery, Sydney
• 1963 Sculpture Today, Stable Gallery of Victoria and Local Galleries
• 1963 Centre 5, Newcastle Single-mindedness Art Gallery, NSW
• 1964-65 Recent Indweller Sculpture, Touring Australian State Galleries
• 1964 Centre 5, Hungry Horse Crowd, Sydney
• 1966 Australian Sculpture Centre, Canberra
• 1968 Bonython Art Gallery, Sydney
• 1969 Bonython Art Gallery, Sydney
• 1973 Centre 5, Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria
• 1973 Middle 5, McCelland Art Gallery, Victoria
• 1977 Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane
• 1978 Physicist Street Gallery, Melbourne
• 1981 Axiom Congregation, Melbourne
• 1984-85 Lenton Parr Sculpture: Show, National Gallery of Victoria
• 1987 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
• 1988-89 Manly Bicentenary Sculpture Commission
• 1990 Melbourne International Tribute, Melbourne
• 1990 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
• 1990 Melbourne Sculptural Triennial, Melbourne
• 1990 A-Z Gallery, Tokyo
• 1992 Irving Galleries, Sydney
• 1993 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
• 1995 State Felix, Benalla, Victoria
• 1996 A Statue Walk in the Royal Biology Gardens, Melbourne
• 1997 Christine Abrahams Congregation, Melbourne
• 1998 The Mentors: Work by virtue of the 6 Deans of character Victorian College of the Covered entrance School of Art, Victorian Bailiwick Centre, Melbourne

Represented in collections

Represented replace most State Gallery and all over the place Public Collections and in many Institutional and Private Collections including:

• Art Gallery of New Southern Wales
• Art Gallery of Western Australia
• Australian National Gallery
• Australian National University
• Ballarat Institute of Advanced Education
• Carrick Hill, Southbound Australia
• Deakin University'
• Geelong Art Gallery
• La Trobe University
• McClelland Gallery, Langwarrin
• Melbourne College ticking off Advanced Education
• Mildura Arts Centre
• National Assemblage of Victoria
• Newcastle Region Art Gallery
• Phillip Institute of Technology
• Queensland Art Gallery
• Queensland University of Technology
• University of Melbourne
• Victoria College
• Victorian College of the Arts
• Warrnambool Art Gallery

Selected commissions

• 1954 Melbourne Public school School
• 1958 Union Theatre, University promote Melbourne
• 1959 Chadstone Shopping Centre, Victoria
• 1960 Offices of Bernard Evans & Associates, Melbourne
• 1961 Telstro House, Ruler Street, Melbourne
• 1961 Chemistry Building, ANU, Canberra
• 1962 Geology Building, ANU, Canberra
• 1962 State Savings Bank, Showgrounds Shoot, Melbourne
• 1963 'Age' offices, Collins Path, Melbourne
• 1964 Burwood Teachers' College, Burwood, Victoria
• 1964 John Curtin Memorial Edifice, ANU, Canberra
• 1965 General Motors - Holden, Fishermen's Bend, Melbourne
• 1966 Another Customs House, William Street, Melbourne
• 1968 Philip Morris P/L, Moorabbin, Victoria
• 1969 IAC Building, Exhibition Street, Melbourne
• 1970 Technical Teachers' College, Malvern, Victoria
• 1970 Astrojet Building, Tullamarine, Victoria
• 1972 Personal Commission, Hobart
• 1972 State College addendum Victoria, Coburg
• 1978 Australian Wool Corporation
• 1981 Victorian College of Pharmacy
• 1988 Elgee Park, Merricks, Victoria
• 1988-89 Bicentennial Group, The Corso, Manly, NSW
• 2001 Besen Collection, Tarrawarra Estate, Victoria

Bibliography

• Sculpture, Longmans 1961
• Vital Presences, Beagle Press 1999

References